Learn2Code

GitHub’s Atom is rapidly maturing into one of the best code editors available. While it lost to Sublime Text in last year’s SitePoint Smackdown, many issues no longer exist:

version 1.0 has been released

it’s easy to install on Windows, Mac and Linux

speed has significantly improved, and

it’s still free but betters many commercial offerings.

The number of add-ons has increased exponentially, with more than 750 themes and 2,400 packages at the time of writing. The reason: Atom can be extended using web technologies. If you’re working on Node.js or front-end projects, Atom is a great choice.

Package installation is simple. You can either:

open the + Install panel in the Settings tab then search for a package by name, or

install from the command line using apm install <package-name>.

Here are ten essential add-ons, plus a few bonus ones, to make Atom even better …

Node.js is asynchronous in nature and runs on single threaded event loop. But how that work ? Well let’s say you have fired a database query and you are waiting for query to execute and then proceed further, but in a same scenario, what will happen to the piece of code which is not dependent on that database query? They won’t execute and wait for their turn.

Asynchronous is exactly opposite of this. While you are doing database query Node.js will continue executing code and when database query will be done, it will come back to process it.

Download the Mass Mailer from Github

This is one of the great feature to improve performance of the application but as a developer you got little more pain to handle particular scenarios ( like sending E-mail Mass mailer ) or your code will turn-up into callback hell.

Our demo application :

Introduction

Sails.js is node.js framework that allows you to build enterprise-ready, custom MVC ( model, view, controller ) application on-the-go. Sails.js has built-in features such as an API creator, and its socket integration in every route and database ORM makes it very useful and helps speed up development.

Sails.js features

Sails.js has lots of features which will help you to build custom, enterprise-ready applications. Some of them are as follows:

Auto generated API

Database ORM

Inbuilt task runner

Security code

Built-in web sockets in routes.

Unlike MEAN stack, where you need to create API's manually and do same repetitive thing again and again, Sails.js allows you to automatically create skeleton APIs. Just a single command, and you will have block of code generated to get you started.

Additionally, Sails.js provides database drivers for every major database systems such as MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL. Sails.js uses Grunt task runner as the default task runner, and also provides an effective way to manage custom grunt tasks.

Furthermore, common security parameters such as CORS and CSRF are already included in Sails.js project. All you need to do is to enable them from respective files and your application is secured with the latest security standards.

Sails.js uses Express to handle HTTP operations and Socket.io to handle web socket messages. It provides web socket messages to your routes without configuring it in back-end or front-end layer.